Thinking of getting a 7 year old a casting lesson for his birthday.
Is this too young?
Any recomendations for instruction near Stirling?
Any idea of cost?

you could try John Milne

http://www.flycastingscotland.co.uk/

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Check out Swanswater as they run the Cygnets for under 16's.

I was with an instructor last week and asked what he thought about a lesson for my 8 year old son. He said not to bother until they are at least 10 as small children don't have the strength or muscular coordination to load the rod.

Tricky, as the last guy says, most kids ive seen about that age dont have strong enough wrists and the co,ordination,i wouldnt teach them this age ive tried it with a few and its not very good

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Its a pity as they are the future, but i think it is too young, i did teach a 7 year old with a 7' 3 wt but the other problem is a short concentration span, however bribes do work!
But another that age broke the tip off my rod sticking it into the lake bed, so that was when i made the decision no one under 10 years of age.
Cheers
Richard

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As shanksi previously said , Swanswater run a club for under 16s. I don't know how young they start them.
Either contact the fishery or pop in some sunday morning. The club meet every second Sunday from 9.30 - 13.00. The next meeting is Sunday 22/05/11.

http://www.swanswater-fishery.co.uk/cygnets.html

Joining fee is £15 which includes a cygnets cap and £9 visit for fishing.

Hope this helps

Not an unreasonable call but as a teacher I'd suggest that some kids of that age do have the coordination - I teach one Year 6 lad who's taller than me and I'm 5ft 10", similarly some of our girls, unbelievably tall for 10 / 11 year olds. Some would certainly be able to cope with something like a 6ft 6", Orvis Superfine, with a 3wt line on it.



This is probably one of the greatest limiting factors, even adults struggle to 'focus' for periods of more than 20 minutes, an hour's tuition needs to be 'chunked' with little spells of downtime otherwise it'll become a chore. For a young child, two spells of 5 to 10 minutes as an initial introduction would be my call.

Something else to consider is one of those little 'indoor rods', the sticks with yarn tied to them, would be an excellent idea to get physically immature children to begin to understand how it 'works'.

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You could also try an Echo MPR and just do the odd ten minutes now and then on the lawn.Just little bite size chunks. The best bit is that you can use it when they have had enough. Great fun.

Mike

Its defo not too young. My dad bought me lessons for my 7th birthday also and i think it has been money well spent. Now im 29 and still think it has helped me throughout them years.

Andy